“Firefighters fight fires with their fire hoses. Boxers fight opponents with their punches. Tamers fight savage lions with their whips. Can the rich fight poverty with their lips? The rich are the pols, royals, and churches, who often champion the poor and homeless, organizing campaigns—so all well-meant— seeking donations except their own wealth.”
“Some came to savor the life of the world, as others came to bring life to the world. The former would leave the world with no mark, the latter with everlasting impact.”
“The doctor asks: “Are you sure you don’t smoke?” You say: “I’m sure, doc!” [But truth is—you smoke.] The doctor asks: “Are you sure you don’t drink?” You say: “I’m sure, doc!” [But truth is—you drink.] Whom do you fool?—Yourself, not the doctor! Same with the goals I’ve asked you to author: “If you’ve set down some, but you believe none, you fool yourself—not me or anyone!”
“Indeed, what good are all the world’s progress, security, success, and happiness, if only a small number them possess; sad fate of others they could not care less.”
“When I hear “love yourself,” I get unnerved— it seems self is like “god” meant to be served. Oh how the business world exploited it— spoiling people’s self with all kinds of shit. “Take care of yourself” is rather superb— by it, self seems like a “tool” meant to serve. As we care for our tools to serve us well— we too with our self to serve others well.”
“Who says that you need to fake confidence, that as you fake it, you will make it thence? Can you fake driving, though not know really? Try it and fool none but your idiocy! If you want to don air of confidence, go home and do practice with diligence. Confidence lies in genuine mastery, not in that so-called concealed fakery!”
“A good environment like good weather can bring in happiness like no other. A bad environment like poor weather can bring in an emotional bother.”
“When you drop and break a glass, you cry, “Shit!” But then you must forget all about it. But wait! Think also why did it happen— not to regret but it may not again. When you lose a once good relationship, you curse, but then forget all about it. But wait! Think also why did it happen— not to regret but it may not again.”
“Between environment and mental view— the latter is mightier of the two. A bad mental view makes good scene ugly; a good mental view makes bad scene comely.”
“Laughter shouldn’t be considered the best medicine. It should be a daily supplement taken in large doses whenever possible.”
“Be loveable and love will come to you; so if love comes not, you have all the clue. Don’t be loveable, though, that you be loved, lest it’s a put-on, luring snakes, not doves.”
“There is just one road and there are two men; both have that desire to reach the road’s end. There’s part of the road, though, that’s treacherous; what do you think: “Will both be victorious?” The one who’s intimidated will quit; the one who’s determined will stick to it. Never is success in road’s condition; always, it’s in what makes up a person.”
“What exactly makes life so worth living— though so down we yet choose to be breathing? I’d venture one: “The hope of tomorrow”— kill hope, and life has all but lost its glow!”
“If you do make money as your master, be ready for unwanted disaster. But then check you’re good master of money, lest a greater disaster awaits thee.”
“See that before you teach one how to fish, there is water waiting for him to fish; or before you teach any how to farm, there is some land waiting for them to farm. The woes of the world are not dearth of skills, but lack of areas to apply the skills. Greed has gone so unbridled and heartless, world is heaven to few, hell to countless.”
“If friendship to you is like planting seed— expecting to reap from it when in need, that through thick and thin, hands be there to lend— then what you need is a spouse, not a friend.”
“A business seen as unprofitable, when done with passion is profitable. A business said to be profitable, done sans passion is unprofitable. So when you start drawing up stratagems, don’t you look around too much to find them. Face the mirror—you are the strategy! You and your passion!—nothing much to be.”